The wait is nearly over: one of the most anticipated games of the year, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, comes out next week. We'll let you know if the early reviews (84% at PC Zone UK and 88% at PC Gamer UK) were reliable. In the meantime, tell us if you plan to buy the game, and when. Ubisoft started shutting down the beta test servers (even if they still offer an open beta access when you preorder the game on their online store). However, it is still possible to play the game by launching the runme.exe program under Steam\steamapps\your_account_name\dark messiah multiplayer open beta\. Thanks to the always resourceful Mana for the tip.

GameSpot posts new movies of the game on a regular basis: the latest (#15) is a video interview with Sascha Dikiciyan and Cris Velasco, the composers I mentioned earlier in the news. The second one (#14), Cooking With Your Friends, is a silly and funny parody that shows, again, the various ways to kill an enemy. One can wonder if there's even a plot in that game!